--- title: Thou actest like the great calm ocean, that beckons us, and fills us… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Thou actest like the great calm ocean, that beckons us, and fills us with expectation--and when we embark upon thee, we sink, disappear, and cease to be. Who acts: Thou, great calm ocean, we. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thou, great calm ocean, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:151:207 # text = Thou actest like the great calm ocean, that beckons us, and fills us with expectation--and when we embark upon thee, we sink, disappear, and cease to be. 1 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 2 nsubj _ _ 2 actest act VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 like like ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 ocean ocean NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 beckons beckon VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 11 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 fills fill VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 15 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 expectation expectation NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 -- -- PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 20 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 advmod _ _ 21 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 embark embark VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 23 upon upon ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 26 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 sink sink VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 disappear disappear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 cease cease VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **act** | present | Thou | | | | | like the great calm ocean | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent like ocean=Attribute | | 2 | **beckon** | present | the great calm ocean | us | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient | | 3 | **fill** | present | the great calm ocean *not said here* | us | | | | with expectation | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent we=Patient with expectation=Instrument | | 4 | **embark** | present | we | | | | | upon thee | tree rules | | 5 | **sink** | present | we | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **disappear** | present | we *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **cease** | infinitive | Thou *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 8 | **be** | to-infinitive | Thou *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 206](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/151/206/) - next →: [sentence 208](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/151/208/) - ↑ back to [The Psyche](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/151/)